Thanks to Sheriff Henry Trochesset and his department for their recent assistance. My brother, living in San Leon, recently passed away. Immediately after being notified, I left my home in the Austin area for San Leon.

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Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote that “The world will be saved by beauty,” which leads us to ask two rhetorical questions: first, does this mean that the world is lost and, second, is ugliness to blame for its condition? Rhetorical questions require no answer, but what we can see for ourselves is that in their multiple forms — artistic, personal and moral — beauty and ugliness contend for cultural supremacy. Today the general consensus among humanistic thinkers is that a “cult of ugliness” prevails.

GALVESTON — With the news Monday that the planning commission would continue its review of the new Land Development Regulations into April, the city has released an updated schedule of what will be reviewed at each of the next five workshop meetings.

As it has since the review meetings began in January, the planning commission will accept only written comments about the Land Development Regulations. There is also a public comment period during each of the commission’s regular meetings, and there will be at least two public meetings about the plan following the commission’s review.

The commission has already completed first reviews of the plan’s new rules on purposes and districts, use tables, parking, landscaping, the Gateway Corridor district, historic preservation and nonconformities.

Originally, the review was to be completed by the end of February, but the commission has committed to a line-by-line review of the new regulations, which has extended the process.

The new schedule follows. All meetings are held in Room 204 at Galveston City Hall.